Mizmor shir l'yom ha Shabbat, a psalm, a song for the sabbath day
Psalm 92:1-15 It is good to praise Yahweh,to sing praise to Your name, Most High, to declare Your faithful love in the morningand Your faithfulness at night, with a ten-stringed harpand the music of a lyre. For You have made me rejoice, Lord,by what You have done;I will shout for joybecause of the works of Your hands. How magnificent are Your works, Lord,how profound Your thoughts! A stupid person does not know,a fool does not understand this: though the wicked sprout like grassand all evildoers flourish,they will be eternally destroyed. But You, Lord, are exalted forever. For indeed, Lord, Your enemies—indeed, Your enemies will perish;all evildoers will be scattered. You have lifted up my hornlike that of a wild ox;I have been anointed with oil. My eyes look down on my enemies;my ears hear evildoers when they attack me. The righteous thrive like a palm treeand grow like a cedar tree in Lebanon. Planted in the house of the Lord,they thrive in the courts of our God. They will still bear fruit in old age,healthy and green, to declare: “The Lord is just;He is my rock,and there is no unrighteousness in Him.”
This is traditionally sung during the Friday evening, and Shabbat morning. It is sung with great joy, and in some synagogues dancing breaks out.
The sabbat is treated like a majestic queen, and is a day of great simcha (joy). In the Friday night service, Psalm 95 is also said, it is a psalm to do with Osrael not hardening her heart, as she did in the wilderness. This Psalm is expounded in Hebrews 3, and 4, and correlates the true Shabbat rest found only in Melekh Hamashiach (Messiah the King).
As we gather this afternoon for seudah shlishit (the third Sabbath meal), and go out on a prayer walk this evening, pray that God will not open things up to us spiritually, but that there will be a spiritual unrest among the community, and that people will show up in our midst during our walk, seeking Him who is Lord of Shabbat.
Blessing you all from Pearson international airport
Michael
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